Cowboy Slang

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Summary: Colorful Cowboy Sayings!
Review: Edgar "Frosty" Potter has put together an excellent compilation cowboy slang. This book is chock full of amusing phrases such as: "He's as slow actin' as wet gunpowder" and "Hot words lead to cold slabs." This book is a MUST, for anyone looking to spice up their written dialog with amusing phrases, or for any fan of the cowboy/western genre in general.

Unlike other books, with the same theme, this is a book of phrases, arranged in a logical concise order. Several amusing illustrations are scattered throughout.

Rating:
Summary: Colorful Cowboy Sayings!
Review: Edgar "Frosty" Potter has put together an excellent compilation cowboy slang. This book is chock full of amusing phrases such as: "He's as slow actin' as wet gunpowder" and "Hot words lead to cold slabs." This book is a MUST, for anyone looking to spice up their written dialog with amusing phrases, or for any fan of the cowboy/western genre in general.

Unlike other books, with the same theme, this is a book of phrases, arranged in a logical concise order. Several amusing illustrations are scattered throughout.

Rating:
Summary: Hilarious
Review: I bought this to add color to a character I am creating. I found it very well suited to that purpose and it has adorned my bathroom ever since providing daily laughs.

Rating:
Summary: Hilarious
Review: I bought this to add color to a character I am creating. I found it very well suited to that purpose and it has adorned my bathroom ever since providing daily laughs.

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Summary: tough read
Review: If you're writing a Western and want some spicy language to make your dialogue sound authentic, then this is the book for you!
However, it reads like a dictionary, and unfortunately doesn't give any detail on the origin of any of the strange cowboy phrases.

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Summary: not enough maps
Review: Interesting book, some neat pictures and drawings, cowboy slang scattered through-out, a few maps. Dry reading. My biggest complaint is there are no maps of the main areas or landmarks discussed, such as the Indian reservations, mesas, mines, towns, mountain ranges, etc. What use is it to say "the mailtrain went from here to there" when one has no idea via a map or anything else where here or there is. I'm very partial to maps, which is the reason for low stars.

Rating:
Summary: A useful source
Review: This is a small [128-page] "dictionary" listing words or phrases that cowboys do use, did use, or might have used. Like most slang and old colloquial language that does not have much of a written record, there is not much about origins, simply because there is no way to find them. Not listing origins is better than making them up!

Rating:
Summary: A useful source
Review: This is a small [128-page] "dictionary" listing words or phrases that cowboys do use, did use, or might have used. Like most slang and old colloquial language that does not have much of a written record, there is not much about origins, simply because there is no way to find them. Not listing origins is better than making them up!